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Less than a year after they secretly wed, Michelle Williams and musician Phil Elverum have split up.

The couple, who quietly wed in front of friends and family last summer, have separated, the New York Post reports.

Actress Michelle Williams. Picture: GettySource:Getty Images

Musician Phil Elverum. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

“Michelle and Phil separated at the beginning of the year. It was an amicable spilt and they remain friends,” a source told the mag.

The Fosse/Verdon star, 38, has reportedly been spotted without her wedding ring during recent public outings.

Michelle Williams as Gwen Verdon in a scene from the series Fosse/Verdon. Picture: APSource:AP

Williams is mother to a 12-year-old daughter, Matilda, from her relationship to the late actor Heath Ledger.

Elverum, 40, has a 3-year-old daughter from his first marriage. He was married to Canadian musician Geneviève Castrée for 13 years. Four months after they had their daughter she was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer and died 13 months later in 2016.

Williams revealed that she married the musician, who mainly records under the name Mount Eerie, in a Vanity Fair cover story last July.

“I never gave up on love. I always say to Matilda, ‘Your dad loved me before anybody thought I was talented, or pretty, or had nice clothes’,” she said.

“Obviously I’ve never once in my life talked about a relationship,” she said. “But Phil isn’t anyone else. And that’s worth something.

“Ultimately the way he loves me is the way I want to live my life on the whole. I work to be free inside of the moment. I parent to let Matilda feel free to be herself, and I am finally loved by someone who makes me feel free,” she said.

Williams said she was speaking out in the hope her experience would help others who are struggling to find love after losing a partner.

“I don’t really want to talk about any of it,’ she said. ‘But there’s that tease, that lure, that’s like, ‘What if this helps somebody? What if somebody who has always journeyed in this way, who has struggled as much as I struggled, and looked as much as I looked, finds something that helps them?’

“Don’t settle. Don’t settle for something that feels like a prison, or is hard, or hurts you. If it doesn’t feel like love, it’s not love,” she said.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and is republished here with permission